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POPSHeroism, Heartbreak, Frustrating Bureaucracy, and a Happy Ending This disabled Vietnam veteran paratrooper with three Purple Hearts is no longer a man without a country. Wednesday, 40 years after limping home from Vietnam, Rudy Thomas, 64, a Trinidadian immigrant, took the Oath of Citizenship in the Brooklyn Federal Courthouse. Now he is an official American hero. 'For the last 40 years I thought of myself as a proud American,' Thomas was saying yesterday, waiting in the large courtroom on the 2nd floor with 250 new citizenship applicants from 40 countries to be sworn in by Federal Judge Nina Gershon. 'I came home. My discharge papers said I was an American citizen. For the past 30 years I worked as a counselor at the State Department of Veteran's Affairs. My first American-born son, Rudy Jr., became a New York City police officer. He was shot dead on the Fourth of July in 1993...'
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POPSBritain is the world's biggest arms exporter Tre paesi, Australia (11 miliardo dollari), Canada (10 miliardo dollari) e Pakistan (sei miliardo dollari), alzati i posti dell'importazione, le figure di DSO hanno mostrato. (estremità) he.rk KUNA 181400 l'8 giugno NNNN
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POPSAnnual Worldwide Press Freedom Index 2007: RWB "The detention of Al-Jazeera’s Sudanese cameraman, Sami Al-Haj, since 13 June 2002 at the military base of Guantanamo and the murder of Chauncey Bailey in Oakland in August mean the United States is still unable to join the lead group." "All of the EU countries made it into the top 50 except Bulgaria (51st) and Poland (56th). The countries of northern Europe are always the ones who behave best. The exception is Netherlands (12th), which has fallen 12 places because it kept two Telegraaf journalists in custody for two days for refusing to reveal their sources to the judicial authorities. "The Internet is occupying more and more space in the breakdown of press freedom violations. Several countries fell in the ranking this year because of serious, repeated violations of the free flow of online news and information."
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